The Pakistan Stock Exchange on Thursday commenced the post-Eid week on a positive note, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index gaining 379 points.

The index climbed 0.82 per cent to 46,712 points by the end of the session. It had touched the day's low at 46,116 points within the first 15 minutes of the session, but rebounded immediately to the day's high at 47,086 points before losing some ground over the course of the day.

Trading activity was led by the banking sector, with 43.7 million shares changing hands during the session, followed by communication and engineering with 30m and 17.4m shares traded respectively.

A total 107m shares of KSE-100 Index companies changed hands in the session, with a total worth of nearly Rs11 billion.

Stocks of 386 companies in all were traded, of which 123 gained in value, 239 declined and 24 remained unchanged.

Volumes were led by:

TRG Pak Ltd: 14.75m shares traded [-4.90pc];

Bank of Punjab(: 11.01m shares traded [+0.00pc];

Bank of Punjab: 10.79m shares traded [+2.53pc];

K-Electric: 8.42m shares traded [-2.14pc];

Aisha Steel Mill: 7.04m shares traded [-4.90pc];